Ink and Paper

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. INTRODUCTION 11
4. IN THE BEGINNING WAS BLACK FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE YEAR 1000
5. Mythologies of Darkness 21
6. From Darkness to Colors 24
7. From Palette to Lexicon 27
8. Death and Its Color 30
9. The Black Bird 36
10. Black, White, Red 39
11. IN THE DEVIL’S PALETTE TENTH TO THIRTEENTH CENTURIES
12. The Devil and His Images 47
13. The Devil and His Colors 51
14. A Disturbing Bestiary 56
15. To Dispel the Darkness 60
16. The Monks' Quarrel: White Versus Black 63
17. A New Color Order: The Coat of Arms 68
18. Who Was The Black Knight? 72
19. A FASHIONABLE COLOR FOURTEENTH TO SIXTEENTH CENTURIES
20. The Colors of the Skin 79
21. The Christianization of Dark Skin 82
22. Jesus with the Dyer 88
23. Dyeing in Black 90
24. The Color's Moral Code 95
25. The Luxury of Princes 100
26. The Gray of Hope 106
27. THE BIRTH OF THE WORLD IN BLACK AND WHITE SIXTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
28. Ink and Paper 115
29. Color in Black and White 119
30. Hachures and Guillochures 122
31. The Color War 124
32. The Protestant Dress Code 130
33. A Very Somber Century 134
34. The Return of the Devil 136
35. New Speculations, New Classifications 140
36. A New Order of Colors 144
37. ALL THE COLORS OF BLACK EIGHTEENTH TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES
38. The Triumph of Color 153
39. The Age of Enlightenment 159
40. The Poetics of Melancholy 165
41. The Age of Coal and Factories 170
42. Regarding Images 176
43. A Modern Color 180
44. A Dangerous Color? 190
45. NOTES 196
46. BIBLIOGRAPHY 207
47. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 211
48. PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS 211